>>14395667It doesn't need to be a hoax - any hoax is necessarily 90% true (ie, in a magic trick, connection and physical causality is occuring - we just miss the 'sleight of hand' and we interpret is as 'magic') It's the intention that is disguised and misconstrued.
Thus, any good lie is just a rearranging of the distrubition of information within an established context.
In the case of Covid, people don't even care if it's 'fake' or not, (fake things don't real) because the extent of their lives can't even comprehend patterns of internal household conflict. People will naturally gravitate toward one another. If you wanted real examples, just look at the past hundred years of marketing and consumerism. You literally don't even have to ASK people to do something, just create a 'purchase impetus.'
US military operations are proof that there are groups, small in number, who have absolute global influence. The groups trickle down, from defense contractor, to disenfranchised potential soldier.
It's not a leap to see the same mechanism at work in the profitability and exploit-value of healthcare (manipulating anxiety, the same as war.)
A significant mechanism of human society is group collaboration dictated by fear, usually focussed on an outgroup. (nazis, commies etc) (even a weightlifter - I will EAT food and SUFFER to GET BIG) Christians say they 'fear God' and a large number probably fear eternal damnation. Now take their descendants, and replace the outgroup with 'invisible physicalites' - no longer ghosts, but radiation and infrasound, no longer demons but 'mental illness' and pathogens. Now Covid - and people love it. In an age old phenomenon: they can use it as an opportunity to demonstrate their morality; they are true believers, they are *good people* and they are saving the world.
Modernity is not at all free from that neurotic and consequentially malleable character, which we have simply processed in good industrial fashion, into a public commidity.
